Diana Gardner-Williams is the mother of 3 year old son, 2 early pregnancy losses and 1 stillbirth. Nearly 3 years after loosing her stillborn son Tanner, Diana set out to provide a creative outlet for parents to acknowledge and preserve the legacy of their “angel babies”. Diana is owner and founder of Just a Cloud Away Inc. www.justacloudaway.com support website providing specialty remembrance kits, memory garden tutorials, keepsake crafts and inspirational articles and ideas to help families grieving the loss of their baby.Diana is also Professional Landscape Designer who has a passion for developing Memory/Remembrance Gardens to help those grieving the loss of a loved one. Diana also speaks on topics of pregnancy and infant loss, memory and reflective gardens, garden design and scrapbooking loss.
Please feel free to email me about your little angel. They all have a story to be memorialized informing future generations that they are loved and forever missed. I thank the women that have shared the memories of their children with me. I hold no judgement of those who have aborted their babies and pray that you find the peace I did. Our babies leave us in so many different ways; stillbirths, SIDS, miscarriage, selective reduction, molar and ectopic pregnanies and other tragedies. October is a month for all of us to honor and remember our children who are waiting for us and are just a cloud away.
Peace Love and Hugs from Above
Diana
Thanks for your comment! I love your blog as well. Yes, please feel free to add a link to my blog on yours and I will do the same.
I’d love to read some of your articles and would appreciate any advice you have on other places to submit articles too. I write a daily column about adoption but lately I really feel like I should be writing about other things too! So any information is greatly appreciated. I tried to email you privately, but I don’t think it went through but you are more than welcome to email me privately at princessmuh1@yahoo.com.
Be Blessed,
Coley
Hmmm, I haven’t gotten any emails from you! I checked my bulk email to make sure my computer didn’t send it there, but I didn’t see anything there from you either! Try me at this addy instead: coleybelle@gmail.com.
I will try and listen to you on that radio show today!
Diana,
Thank you for visiting my blog and leaving a comment. I came to check out your page and I think it is so beautiful. You have done an amazing thing here. What a blessing that you are and will be to so many grieving families. I know that your heavenly angels must be proud of all that you are doing.
darcy
Friends,
I entered a video I made for my wife after we lost our son,(stillborn at 8 months) in a short film contest – Rumschpringe: A Very Short Film Competition. Unfortunately it was not selected for inclusion in the festival. However, it can still get in if it wins the popular vote on the film contest’s youtube site which you can goto here:
http://www.youtube.com/RumschpringeFilmComp
My film is called “Stars”, the score is a combination of rating and getting favorited,(You may have to create an account to rate and favorite, but it is very easy) so please rate and favorite after you view it. Feel free to forward it to others. Thanks for your help.
Sincerely,
Rob
P.S. Any prizes won will be donated to Ephrata’s Neonatal Infant Care Unit
P.S.S. Contest ends Tuesday
dear diana,
many heaartfelt blessings to you. i was researching magnolia trees when i came across your blog. they hold a special significance to me. i wrote a story of how a tree named “maggie” helps a child survive. it’s a different kind of loss than yours, but i still wanted to share.
thank you for your strength.
tristan
Hi there it is interesting to read your story.
My husband and I made our Retrouvaille weekend last April. We still go to core meetings and our marriage has improved 100%. I always say TGFR Thank God for Retrouvaille. I also read this story about you losing your little one. My daughter who is 19 lost a baby in November it was a very hard time for us all. I wish that she would get help and talk to someone about how she feels etc. but she will not. She had to deliver the baby in November at McMaster Hospital and the hospital was very supportive explained to her and her boyfriend all the programs they had to help them but they refuse to take advantage of the help that is there for them. I have the memory box of the baby at our home that I will keep for my daughter. Please pray for her
thank you and God Bless you
Margaret
I think this is wonderful
Dear friend,
Your blog is looking pretty good. I would like to have one link in your blog.
I will pay for the link. Can you help me regarding this?
Thanks
jennet
I have bookmarked your website, I recently lost twins, the first baby boy on March 8th and the second baby boy on April 7th. I’m not ready to talk about this yet but reading your story about Tanner has been helping. Thank you.
Hi Diana,
You have such a beautiful website. As a reluctant survivor of 4 miscarriages, I’ve really enjoyed ‘browsing’ through your site.
Re Online Petition to Raise Awareness of our Shared Loss
I’m a volunteer for a nonprofit organization called PILARI: the Pregnancy & Infant Loss Awareness & Research Institute. Great bunch of people. They just put up an online petition I hope you might post a notice about on your website.
Anyone can add their name, no matter which country they live in. It’s to get Oct. 15th recognized in Australia too, but everyone’s name (across the world) counts.
I’ve posted this information out like this — of course you can edit the wording, if you prefer:
As you know, International Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day (Oct. 15th) is recognized in the USA and Canada. Petitions like this one brought about these achievements. Please take 30 seconds, to add your name at: http://www.pilari.org/pages/PETITION.html
It asks for your email address, only so you can confirm (at a ‘click’ of the mouse) that you’ve added your name to the list. (This is done to make sure that the name was added by a person, not generated automatically). Your email will NOT be made public (i.e. it won’t be on the petition), and your email will not be shared — NO spam, we promise!!
This month, I met with both my local State and Federal MPs: two respected and compassionate women who are totally behind this. (You can read more about in the news section of this website). They will bring this petition to Parliament in about 3 weeks’ time. So please add your name today!
Thank you ever so much.
Nicole Ballinger
For PILARI
Nicole
Thank you so much for adding this to Love Talk Blog. I just signed the petition and I hope many more bereaved families will do so.
This is a grief that is “in the closest” as mentioned on your site. It will take more time to change this perception. The sorrow of pregnancy and infant loss is acknowledged moreso now than 40 years ago.
I will link your site to the blog Nicole and bless you for doing this
Peace Love and Hugs from Above
Diana
Hi Diana . . .
I stumbled on your website today and it is beautifully created and full of amazing information . . .
I wanted to share an organization that I belong to called
“Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep’
http://www.nowilaymedowntosleep.org/
We are a national organization of volunteer photographers that provide infant remembrance photography for families that will not be taking their babies home from the hospital. You may already know of us and I might just be repeating someone else’s information but wanted you and your readers to know about us . . .
If you don’t know about us, I hope that you can visit our website and think about adding us as a link in yours . . .
Thank you for what you do here Diana . . .
Vicki Zoller
Area Coordinator/Photographer
Seattle, WA
NILMDTS
Hello Vicki,
Thank you for stopping by Just a Cloud Away. I am very aware of the beautiful work the photographers do for bereaved families of deceased babies. I sent Cheryl, the founder a kit and interest in exchanging links over a year ago. I never heard anything.
If you can provide a contact person for exchanging links I would appreciate it Vicki.
Peace Love and Hugs from Above
Diana
Our beautiful baby girl was born without life on 25th Sept 2008 on her due date full term. We named her Ruby and she was our first baby. She was our precious little gem and so we have created a beautiful garden for her so wee can continue to see her grow. We placed some of her ashes under her Lace Bark tree and the other kids in the family planted small bright red flowers.
One of her grandparents gave us a bench for her garden and I go sit with her every day. She is always here. I miss her so much every minute of every day. Her dad was devestated and so strong. We are helping each other.
Ruby still lives with us in her beautiful tree……
I long for her physical being but I feel her spirit every where….
I just wanted to say that I’m sorry for your loss. We lost our baby July 28th, 2009. She was born into heaven. As I have heard many people tell me that I am not alone in this I have found that out a lot. A lot of me wishes there was not so many people that could help me through this that has gone through it too. It’s very painful and there are not even words that could help comfort me or anyone that has to go through this situation. However, Thanks for writing your story.
Hi Diana,
I came across your website and I would like to share a song with you.
It is called “Still” and you can find it on my website:
http://www.myspace.com/gerrithofsink
It’s the first song on the player.
After my daughter and son-in-law lost their first child (and our first grandchild) after a nine months pregnancy, I wrote this song about that experience.
Maybe there is a way of sharing this song with other people, through your website?
Thank you for your time,
Gerrit Hofsink
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hi diana,we lost our son aaron 9 years ago.he was stillborn at 34wks.so sorry for your loss.
Dear Diana,
I’ve just started reading your blog, and found it because I googled “divorce after stillbirth.”
I lost my son, Finnegan Ryan Douglas, almost 1 year ago. I found out he died in utero on September 23rd when I was 40 weeks 3 days pregnant. He was stillborn on September 25th.
My husband and I have been married for 7 years, and together for 9 years. We have always had some challenges. We are very different in many ways. We were ready to start this new chapter of our lives, and it took us a long time to get to this point. Then it was taken away.
Things seem to be getting more and more difficult. We don’t like each other very much or very often. We are in couple’s therapy. He is not spiritual, and I am Catholic. I cannot ask him to be involved in any Christian-based therapy.
My question to you is: did you save your marriage? and if so, how?
Many thanks,
Sue
Great information
hiya em i was wondering if u could help me i dont know what to think or feel i lost my my little boy at 2months he was born on 13th august-13th october 2012 i miss him so much i want him to return i was so attached to him :’( x
Your healthcare manhood won’t be soft